Cream-testing churn



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N. S ANDREWS & H. P.-BURNAP.

CREAM TESTINGUHURN. No. 334,924; Patented Jan. 26, 1886.

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CREAM TESTING GHURN (NOM0de1.)

No. 334.924. Patented Jan. 26, 1886.

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nrnnr NATHANIEL S. ANDREWS AND HIRAM F. BURNAP, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA.

CREAM-TESTING CHURN.

PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,924, dated January 26, 1886.

Application filed July 20, 1885. Serial No. 172,156.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, NATHANIEL S. AN- DREWS and HIRAM F. BURNAP, of the city of Dubuque, county of Dubuque, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cream-Testing Ohurns; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Our invention relates to that class of churns used in the manufacture of butter, whereby small quantities or samples of cream, taken from various dairies, are churned at the same time; but it more particularly embodies an improvement on the cream-testing churns patented to Nathaniel S. Andrews on the 16th day of June, A. D. 1885, and numbered 320,426, and is intended to operate as a more convenient mode of holding and ma nipulating the bottles containing the cream to be churned.

For the better understanding of the manner of constructing and using our invention, attention is called to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents, in perspective view,one of the frames or sections; Fig. 2, a similar view of an additional section; Fig. 8, a plan view, in perspective, of a modification; and Fig. 4., a similar view ofan additional section of the same.

Like letters denote corresponding parts in each drawing.

A denotes a section or frame for the holding of the bottles containing the samples of cream to be churned. This frame A is preferably constructed with abase-board divided crosswise at its center and provided with grooves a a, just deep enough to hold the bottles a a, containing the samples of cream to be churned. These grooves a a we form on both sides of the partition b. To the middle of the sides of the section or frame A are fastened a pair of lugs or guides, g g, and to one end a bracket, t". Through the partition b, at its opposite ends, we pass the rods D, threaded nearly their entire length, and each supplied with a thumb-screw, d d. This frame or section thus constructed we mount (No model.)

on any suitable frame and connect it with power, the same as shown and described in Letters Patent No. 320,426.

If it is desired to churn more samples than can be held by the bottles in the frame A, we construct a second frame, B. (Shown in Fig. 2.) This frame is in all respects for holding the bottles a a the same as frame A, but not having the lugs or guides g g, or bracket i, or rods D D, but corresponding to the rods D D we bore holes in the ends of the partition b, and through these holes 12 b the rods D D are passed when additional sections are used This section B is then placed upon section A, with the rods D D passing up through the holes b b in said section B, and by the thumbscrews d d is firmly held down upon section A. Any desired number of these sections B may be added, according as there are more bottles a a containing samples of cream to be churned than can be placed in section A, which usually contains thirty bottles. It is manifest that these bottles a a may be held in several different ways and not depart from the spirit of our invention, another of which we will describe, and it is shown in Figs.- 3 and 4. We use the same base-board A as shown in Fig. 1, but instead of grooves a a for holding the bottles we put in staples of a or eye-screws at or near each end of the bottles, of the size of said bottles,

and through these eyes the bottles are slipped till one end of said bottles a a rests against the partition I); and in order to hold the bottles a a from sliding out at the front end of the frame, we construct another frame, B, having both ends turned down at c c, and having the same holes as in section B, through which the rods D D pass, for holding it firmly down upon said section A. This second section is supplied with like partition I) and staples or eye-screws a a in which the bottles a are held.

The manner of churning and testing the cream is the same as patented and described in said Letters Patent No. 320,426.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A frame for churns of the character described, consisting of two or more sections orboards, eaeh divided at the center by a trans- In testimony whereof'we affix our signatures Verse partition, vand provided on top with heretoin the presence of two witnesses. tube or bottle holding receptacles arranged on NATHAN [EL S. ANDREWS. each side of and at right angles to said par- HIRAM 'F. BURN AP. tition, and a pair of screw-threaded rods with \Vitnesses: nuts for securing the sections together, sub- MONROE M. GADY,

- stantially as described and shown. W. G. J oERUs. 

